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Japanese launch daily air attacks on US Fleet units and forces on Okinawa; fighting still heavy in south with no substantial changes in US lines; marines maintain advance on Ishikawa Isthmus; US losses noted; 5 Jap suicide boats destroyed in attacks on fleet off Naha and 15 Jap demolition swimmers killed
Foreign Office protests Jap slaying of Manila Counsul and family
US submarine sinks SS Awa Maru, rept to have carried relief supplies to US POWs and internees
9th Army airborne div takes Essen; other units enter Bochum and Gelsenkirchen; take Froendenberg; 1st Army pushes along Salwey River, overrunning Ger hosp; takes Attendorn
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1945Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (died 2006)[â ]
Lee Jong-wook was a South Korean physician. He was the director-general of the World Health Organization for three years. Lee joined the WHO in 1983, working on a variety of projects including the Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunizations and Stop Tuberculosis. He began his term as director-general in 2004, and was the first figure from Korea to lead an international agency.
1945Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States (born 1882)[â ]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth saw him shift his focus to America's involvement in World War II.
1945U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes President upon Roosevelt's death.[â ]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth saw him shift his focus to America's involvement in World War II.
1945World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches TangermĂźndeâonly 80 kilometres from Berlin.[â ]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.